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Police officers should held to a different, higher standard. You touched on takedown techniques and hand-to-hand combat training, but suggesting that it could "go out the window" when dealing with an unarmed attacker is patently ridiculous. Do you mean to tell me that in all that training, the instructor never says, "Oh, by the way, here's how you respond if someone reaches for your gun."? If not, that's a problem. If the training is to take out your gun and shoot that unarmed person, then that's an even bigger problem.

 

Police officers are held to a higher standard.  Yes police officers get training, but in a high stress situation, one that is potentially life threatening, the training does go out the window.  You can sit there and say all you want about how police officers "should" act, but you've never been there.  If you think that dealing with an unarmed man causes training to "go out the window"  ridiculous, I would suggest that you ride along with a police officer sometime and see what a "work day" is all about.

 

A high stress situation is not something that police officers are trained in.  They are of course told about it, but never put under stress during the training.

 

Let me ask you this.  What if you get a call to go to a bar in a rural area to break up a fight?  Say you get there and attempt to break up the fight (along with a couple of other officers) and the crowd all of the sudden starts descending on you?  What do you do?  That happened to me.

 

Now imagine that you went though that, had to go "break up a fight" between a couple, then go to an accident scene where some kid lost his life.  How would you handle that?

 

You seem to miss the point that these officers go through a lot more than people realize.  They are human.  Even if they have received training, they are going to react due to the very real situation presented to them.  If I was the detective in the OP scenario, I would have stopped the action before I let the suspect get my weapon.  You seem to have a problem with that.

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